The DelMonas: Discography

 

British garage pop girl group, the Del Monas began life as the Milk-Boilers, by singing backup on some early Milkshakes recordings. Sarah and Hilary took the lead on a rendition of the Shirelles song

“Boys” (as covered by the Beatles) before Louise joined, striking out on their own with a couple of four-song EPs in 1984: Comin’ Home Baby (popularized by Mel Tormé) and Hello, We Love You (actually the Doors’ “Hello, I Love You”). In both cases, the Milkshakes served as their backing band, Billy Childish and Mickey Hampshire penning the original numbers. By this time the girls had been re-christened the Del Monas, the name being inspired by the Bo Diddley song or taking their name from the word for a decorative handbag favored by women in the Klaipeda region of Lithuania, 
                    

The following year, the girls released their first full-length recording, Dangerous Charms, which contained a different version of ‘Comin’ Home Baby’ (without organ), the remaining EP tracks, three outtakes, and five numbers from a BBC radio broadcast (it was later re-released with additional

material from another BBC session from 1988). Interpersonal tensions resulted in a recording gap of several years and a revamped lineup for 1986′s follow-up, Delmonas 5!. Louise had since left the group and Hilary and Sarah had renamed themselves Miss Ida Red and Ludella Black. The original duo, now backed by Childish, Russ Wilkins and John Agnew, cranked out a louder, harder-hitting sound for their next album The Delmonas, released in 1989. 
                  

It featured Dangerous Charms’ lost title-track and a couple of earlier numbers redone in French. Do the Uncle Willy, released Del Monas 5 LP-coverlater the same year, was the band’s final musical

document. It compiled material from previous releases, a couple of alternate takes, and a new version of Thee Mighty Caesars’ “Lie Detector.” On all of their recordings, the Delmonas mixed cover versions from the ’50s and ’60s with original compositions that sounded as if they came from that era — upbeat ravers in the spirit of the Shangri-Las, Lesley Gore, Nancy Sinatra, and other tough-but-tender girl acts. If they didn’t quite have the vocal range of those artists, they made up for it in attitude and enthusiasm.
                        

This spirit was carried over into the Headcoatees, which included Ludella Black, Holly Golightly,

Kyra Rubella, and Bongo Debbie. This new band would fulfill the same function: as backup to Thee Headcoats and as a band backed by them. 
                

THE DELMONAS - HELLO I LOVE YOU! THE BIG BEAT EPs 
                                 

The DelMonas – Hello, We Love You! The Big Beat EPs
Label: Big Beat Records – 10WIK 348
Format: Vinyl, 10", 33 ⅓ RPM, Compilation, Remastered, Stereo
Country: UK
Released: 2021
Genre: Rock
Style: Garage Rock, Beat, Rhythm & Blues

SIDE A. COMIN' HOME BABY 1984

                           

A1. Comin' Home Baby   2:27
Written-By – Benjamin Tucker, Bob Dorough
A2. Chains   1:55
Written-By – Gerry Goffin, Carole King
A3. Woa' Now   1:49
Written-By – Billy Childish, Micky Hampshire
A4. He Tells Me He Loves Me   2:35
Written-By – Billy Childish, Micky Hampshire

SIDE B. HELLO WE LOVE YOU 1984

                   

B1. Hello, I Love You   2:02
Written-By – Jim Morrison, John Densmore, Ray Manzarek, Robert Krieger
B2. I'm The One For You   2:36
Written-By – Billy Childish, Micky Hampshire
B3. Peter Gunn Locomotion   2:38
Written-By – Henry Mancini, Sammy Cahn
B4. I Want You   2:58
Written-By – Billy Childish, Micky Hampshire   

NOTES

A Milkshakes Production
A1 to A4 first issued as "The Delmonas Volume 1" Big Beat SW 101, 1984
B1 to B4 first issued as "The Delmonas Volume 2" Big Beat SW 102, 1984

Flac Size: 152 MB

THE DELMONAS - DANGEROUS CHARMS 1985
                               

The DelMonas – Dangerous Charms
Label: Vinyl Japan – ASKCD 107
Format: CD, Album, Reissue Mar 27, 2000
Country: UK
Released: 1985    
Genre: Rock
Style: Garage Rock

TRAXS

                    

01. Peter Gunn Locomotion   2:43
Wri tten-By – Mancini, Cahn
02.You Did Him Wrong   2:48
Written-By – Childish, Hampshire
03. Hello I Love You   2:07
Written-By – Morrison, Densmore, Manzarek, Krieger
04. Comin' Home Baby   2:33
Written-By – Tucker, Dorough
05. Lies   2:23
Written-By – Charles, Randall
06. C. C. Rider   2:50
Written-By – Rainey
07. He Tells Me He Loves Me   2:40
Written-By – Childish, Hampshire
08. Hidden Charms   2:02
Written-By – Dixon
09. Twist And Shout   2:29
Written-By – Russell, Medley
10. I'm The One For You   2:41
Written-By – Childish, Hampshire
11. Fever   2:47  
Written-By – Eddie Cooley, Davenport
12. Chains   1:59
Written-By – King, Goffin
13. Please Don't Tell My Baby   1:55
Written-By – Childish, Hampshire
14. I Want You   2:58
Written-By – Childish, Hampshire
15. Take Me Home Tonight   2:05
Written-By – Childish, Hampshire
16. Woa' Now   1:54
Written-By – Childish, Hampshire
17. Kiss Me, Honey Honey, Kiss Me   2:10
Written-By – Timothy, Julien
18. The World Keeps Going Round   2:34
Written-By – Ray Davies
19. I'll Use Evil    2:52
Written-By – Childish, Hampshire
20. You Can't Sit Down   2:24
Written-By – Muldrow, Clark, Upchurch
21. Farmer John   2:53
Written-By – Terry, Harris
22. Uncle Willy   2:56
Written-By – Colbert

LINE - UP

                        

Drums – John Agnew (tracks: 17 to 22)
Drums, Guitar – Bruce Brand (tracks: 1 to 16)
Guitar – Billy Childish, Mick Hampshire (tracks: 1 to 16)
Guitar, Bass – Russ Wilkins
Vocals – Hilary  (tracks: 1 to 16), Ida Red (tracks: 17 to 22), Louise (tracks: 1 to 16), Ludella Black (tracks: 17 to 22), Sarah (tracks: 1 to 16)

NOTES

Arranged By – The Milkshakes
Tracks 2, 8, 9, 11, and 13 are from a 1985 BBC session. First transmission date: 18th February 1985.
Tracks 17 to 22 are from a 1988 BBC session. First transmission date: 25th April 1988.

My EAC Program converts in Flac only 14 tracks. So, take it in MP3-320  MP3 Size: 130 MB

THE DELMONAS - DELMONAS 5 1986 + THE DELMONAS 1989
                              

Delmonas – DelMonas 5 + The DelMonas
Label: Vinyl Japan – ASKCD32
Format: CD, Compilation
Country: UK
Released: Oct 1993
Genre: Rock
Style: Garage Rock

DELMONAS 5 1986

                       

01. Dr. Goldfoot & His Bikini Machine   2:01
Written-By – Guy Hemric, Jerry Styner
02. Heard About Him   2:16
Written-By – Chris Andrews 
03. Why Don't You Smile Now   2:16
Written-By – Vance, Cale, Reed, Phillips
04. Black Elk Speaks   2:16
Written-By – Childish
05. Hound Dog   2:03
Written-By – Leiber/Stoller
06. Delmona (The Temptress Of Love)    3:18
Written-By – Childish, Black
07. I Feel Like Giving In   2:08
Written-By – Childish
08. Keep Your Big Mouth Shut    2:36
Written-By – McDaniel
09. When I Want You   2:00
Written-By – Hampshire
10. Black Ludella   2:13
Written-By – Childish
11. Your Love   1:44
Written-By – Page, Julien
12. Don't Fall In Love (Every Single Time)   2:04
Written-By – Black, Hampshire
13. Jealousy    2:06
Written-By – Childish

 THE DELMONAS 1989

                   

                       
14. Jealousy (French Version)    2:20
Written-By – Childish
15. That Boy Of Mine    2:05
Written-By – Unknown
16. Can't Sit Down   2:20
Written-By – Muldrow, Clark, Upchurch
17. Kiss Me Honey   2:07
Written-By – Unknown
18. I've Got Everything I Need   3:20
Written-By – Childish
19. Uncle Willy   2:56
Written-By – Unknown
20. I Feel Like Giving In   1:50
Written-By – Childish
21. Farmer John   2:50
Written-By – Terry, Harris
22. You Did Him Wrong    2:45
Written-By – Childish, Hampshire
23. Dangerous Charms    2:06
Written-By – Childish, Hampshire
24. The Long Drop    1:59
Written-By – Childish
25. I Feel Alright   3:04
Written-By – Stooges

LINE - Up

                               

Vocals – Ida Red
Vocals – Ludella Black
Bass – Russell Wilkins
Drums – John Agnew
Guitar – Billy Childish

NOTES

A two-albums-in-one CD.
Tracks 1-13: "Delmonas 5" - Hangman Records 1986.
Tracks 14-25: "The Delmonas" - Hangman Records 1989.

Flac Size: 352 MB

THE DELMONAS - DO THE UNCLE WILLY 1989
                            

The DelMonas – Do The Uncle Willy
Label: Get Hip Recordings – GH-1113CD
Format: CD, Album, Compilation, Reissue 2003
Country: US
Released: 1989
Genre: Rock
Style: Garage Rock

                              

TRAXS

                             

01. I Feel Alright    3:06
02. Heard About Him    2:17
03. Farmer John    2:51
04. Ca'rnt Sit Down    2:37
05. Uncle Willy    2:56
06. I Feel Like Giving In    2:01
07. Dangerous Charms    2:07
08. Black Ludella    2:14
09. I Did Him Wrong    2:45
10. Jealousy    2:06
11. Lie Detector    2:01
12. I've Got Everything I Need    3:22
13. That Boy Of Mine    2:06
14. Delmona, The Temptress Of Love    3:20

Flac Size: 233 MB

Darker My Love: Darker My Love (2006) + 2 (2008)

 

Darker My Love was a psychedelic rock band based in Los Angeles, California. Presley and

Granelli were playing in other punk-influenced bands (both played in the Nerve Agents together, Granelli also spent time with the Distillers) when they joined forces with bassist/vocalist Rob Barbato and guitarist Jared Everett, both transplants from Boston. Within the space of a series of excellent live gigs, though, all four players committed to nurturing what was to become a signature bright-but-brooding sound, and Darker My Love, as a tight unit with major potential, was born. 
             

After a string of opening dates for the Kills, the Warlocks, and Icarus Line, the band recorded a three-

song EP released in early 2006. Will Canzoneri joined the band on organ and clavinet in the latter half of 2006. The band released three LPs and one EP. Presley is also a visual artist responsible for much of the band's imagery. 
Their first LP, recorded in 2005, was released on August 22, 2006, on Dangerbird Records. In spring 2006, Presley and Barbato became members of the prolific British post-punk group the Fall, and both are prominent on the Fall's 2007 album Reformation Post TLC. 
                  

The second Darker My Love album, 2, was released on Dangerbird Records on August 5, 2008. Several

songs from the album gained prominence through licensing in television, commercials and video games. The band's third LP, recorded in Northern California in January 2010 and entitled Alive As You Are, was released on July 26, 2010, in the UK and August 17, 2010, in North America. While touring for 2, Andy Granelli left the band to focus on his family and was replaced by Brian Jonestown Massacre drummer Dan Allaire. Their third album, Alive as You Are, was released in 2010. 
                               

LINE - UP

Tim Presley – guitar/vocals (2004–2010)
Andy Granelli – drums (2004–2009)
Rob Barbato – bass/vocals (2004–2010)
Jared Everett – guitar (2004–2010)
Will Canzoneri – organ/clavinet (2006–2010)
Dan Allaire – drums (2009–2010)

ALBUMS

Darker My Love (2006, Dangerbird Records)
2 (2008, Dangerbird Records)
Alive As You Are (2010, Dangerbird Records)

DARKER MY LOVE - DARKER MY LOVE 2006

                     

On their self-titled debut full-length CD, Los Angeles quartet Darker My Love set up a series of distorted hard rock soundscapes. Guitarists Tim Presley and Jared Everett play fuzzed-out, shimmering

riffs over the pounding rhythm section of bassist Rob Barbato and drummer Andy Granelli, as Presley and Barbato sing in echoed unison vocals. But the words and even the songs per se are less important than the overall sound, a powerful wall of noise. Sometimes, the pace slows, notably on "Catch," before revving up for the album's most forceful rocker, the closer "Summer Is Here." At whatever tempo, however, it's the sustained assault of the players that makes the strongest impression.
                      

Darker My Love – Darker My Love
Label: Dangerbird Records – DGB010
Format: CD, Album
Country: US
Released: Aug 22, 2006
Genre: Rock
Style: Alternative Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Shoegaze

TRACKS

                          

01. Opening   3:39
Written-By – T.Presley
02. What's A Man's Paris   3:23
Written-By – Darker My Love
03. Helium Heels   3:49
Written-By – Darker My Love
04. Post Mortem, Post Boredom   2:32
Written-By – R.Barbato
05. Wake   1:05
Written-By – R.Barbato
06. Fall   3:05
Written-By – Barbato, Presley
07. Hello Traveler   4:22
Written-By – T.Presley
08. Claws & Paws   4:14
Written-By – Darker My Love
09. Catch   4:14
Written-By – T.Presley
10. People   2:52
Written-By – R.Barbato
11. I Feel Fine   3:02
Written-By – R.Barbato
12. Summer Is Here   3:20
Written-By – Barbato, Presley

LINE - UP

Vocals – Rob Barbato, Tim Presley
Bass – Rob Barbato
Drums – Andy Granelli
Guitar – Jared Everett, Tim Presley

Flac Size: 272 MB

DARKER MY LOVE - 2  2008

                        

Want an album you won't stop playing? Try the second LP -- imaginatively titled 2 -- of this Tim

Presley-led L.A. fivesome. Put it this way: 2 totally lives up to the grand standard of the 1983 Suburbia movie song "Darker My Love" by America's Damned, L.A.'s T.S.O.L. An upgrade over their eponymous 2006 debut and two EPs, 2 benefits from better songwriting, singing, playing, production...everything. 
                        

Half of it is merely excellent (like the opening two, oddly lesser songs mining the Jesus and Mary

Chain and BRMC), and the other half is fantastic. Fired by some surprisingly top-notch harmonies -- this era's lost art -- riding herd over reverberating shoegaze guitars à la Creation (MBV, Slowdive, Ride), 4AD (Pale Saints, Lush), and Rough Trade (Boo Radleys), 2 is filled with dripping sugar-pop melodies and harmonic developments that usher in a neo-psych world of wonder. We've been waiting eons for a U.K. dream pop band this good, post-Doves. Who'd have thought it'd come from the U.S.? 
                              

Darker My Love – 2
Label: Dangerbird Records – DGB027
Format: CD, Album, Digipak
Country: US
Released: Aug 5, 2008
Genre: Rock
Style: Psychedelic Rock, Indie Rock

TRACKS

01. Northern Soul   4:08
Shaker – Steven Rhodes
02. Blue Day    4:11
03. Two Ways Out    3:23
04. Pale Sun    4:34
05. White Composition    2:45
06. Add To The Other One    4:38
07. Even In Our Lightest Day   3:43
Percussion – Orpheo McCord
08. All The Hurry And Wait
Arranged By [Strings And Brass] – Will Canzoneri   6:11
Cello – Richard Dodd -  French Horn – Stephanie O'Keefe
Trombone [Tenor And Bass] – Bruce Otto
Viola – Leah Katz
Violin – Daphne Chen, Eric Gorfain
09. Waves    2:15
10. Talking Words    3:14
11. Immediate Undertaking    6:11

LINE - UP

Vocals, Guitar – Tim Presley
Vocals, Bass – Rob Barbato
Bells – Timm Boatman
Drums – Andy Granelli
Engineer – Steven Rhodes
Guitar – Jared Everett
Layout – Sara Cumings
Mastered By – Alan Yoshida
Mixed By – Tony Hoffer
Organ, Clavinet – Will Canzoneri
Producer – Dave Cooley

Flac Size:  306 MB

Nitzer Ebb: That Total Age 1987 (Limited Edition 2018)

 

Douglas John McCarthy (1 September 1966 – 11 June 2025) was an English vocalist whose work covers a range of electronic music genres. He was the lead vocalist of the EBM band Nitzer Ebb

from 1982 until 2024. McCarthy was hospitalized in 2021 during Nitzer Ebb's U.S. tour, prompting a break from performing. He returned to the stage in 2023, but in 2024, the band announced that he was taking a break from performing due to the effects of cirrhosis "after years of alcohol abuse". McCarthy died on 11 June 2025, aged 58.
                     

Nitzer Ebb (/ˈnaɪtsər ɛb, ˈnɪt-/) were an English EBM group formed in 1982 by Essex school friends

Vaughan "Bon" Harris (programming, synthesizers, drums, vocals), Douglas McCarthy (vocals), and David Gooday (drums). The band were originally named La Comédie De La Mort but soon discarded that and chose the name Nitzer Ebb by cutting up words and letters and arranging them randomly to create something Germanic without using actual German words.
                    

The band at the time was inspired by the post-punk scene and specifically acts like "Siouxsie and the Banshees, Killing Joke and Bauhaus who were having a big influence on us, in some ways stylistically

but also in the energy that they gave". Their debut album That Total Age was released in 1987. Depeche Mode invited them to open for the European leg of their successful Music for the Masses Tour in 1987. David Gooday left after the tour and they completed their next album Belief (1989) as a duo. Mark 'Flood' Ellis became their new producer. They recruited Julian Beeston to assist them on their own world tour, and he soon became a regular contributor both on and off stage.
                       

Nitzer Ebb virtually disappeared from active music-making for the next four years, finally reappearing

in 1995 with their fifth (and least industrial-sounding) album, Big Hit. The group became inactive, but McCarthy became a regular collaborator with Alan Wilder's Recoil project, and formed the duo Fixmer/McCarthy with techno producer Terence Fixmer. 
                           

THAT TOTAL AGE

           

If the resultant debut was a bit one-note as an overall release, the duo already showed a bent for making sure their concoctions were instantly memorable and undeniably thrilling. McCarthy's singing is less

supple and more ear-piercingly harsh than Gabi Delgado's, say, but his seemingly odd quaver actually gives the band a unique stamp, delivering the slogan-like lyrics with the force of overwhelming command. Consider "Violent Playground," which could almost be a Soft Cell stomper with all the swooning romance completely pared away to leave nothing but brute homoerotic force (and appropriate volume). 
                     

Harris' ear for beats and how to make them really crunch through doesn't let him down -- check out the huge, sudden metal door-slam rhythms on "Smear Body" for a particularly notable example of his

ability. If there's a standout track from That Total Age, it would probably have to be "Join in the Chant," with McCarthy's clipped, elliptical words and delivery perfectly suited for the invigorating storm of drum hits and central bass part. That said, there's plenty of close competition, with the quick, frenetic surge of "Murderous," electronic bass and percussion barely in control as McCarthy roars, "Lift up your hearts!," and the equally impressive "Let Your Body Learn" with its use of vocal echo for maximum impact.
                             

Nitzer Ebb – That Total Age
Label: Pylon Records, Geffen Records – B0025391-02, 
Format: CD, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue Oct 19, 2018
Country: US
Released: 1987    
Genre: Electronic
Style: EBM ("Electronic Body Music")

TRACKS

                          

01. Fitness To Purpose    5:00
02. Warsaw Ghetto    3:47
03. Violent Playground    3:46
04. Murderous    5:40
05. Smear Body    5:40
06. Join In The Chant    6:01
07. Alarm    3:55
08. Let Your Body Learn    2:47
09. Let Beauty Loose    2:24
10. Into The Large Air    4:08
11. Murderous (Instrumental)    5:02
12. Fitness To Purpose (Mix Two)    4:54
13. Join In The Chant (Burn)    5:23
14. Let Your Body Learn (Twelve Inch Mix)    6:26
15. Join In The Chant (Metal Mix)    5:13
16. Warsaw Ghetto (Original 12" Mix)    7:04

FORMER MEMBERS

                       

Douglas McCarthy – vocals, guitars (1982–2025; his death; not touring during 2024–2025)
Duc Nhan Nguyen – drums (1987–1988)
Julian Beeston – drums (1989–1992)
Jason Payne – drums (1992–1995, 2007–2019)
Bon Harris – programming, synthesizers, drums, vocals, bass (1982–present)

NOTES

Expanded Collectors Edition - Released in an embossed tri-fold card sleeve.
Contains 4 Bonus tracks, including the 12” mixes of “Join In The Chant”, “ Let Your Body Learn”, “ Warsaw Ghetto” and rare instrumental version of “Murderous”.

Flac Size: 575 MB

Nitzer Ebb: Showtime 1990 on Urban Aspirines HERE